These three countries have been the theater of military coups since August 2020. The West African organization, which suspended them from its bodies, put pressure on the juntes so that they quickly make power to civilians. .
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
The Economic Community of West African States (Cédéao) keeps CAP. Reunited Friday, March 25 in Accra in Ghana, she announced the maintenance of sanctions against Mali because of the delay in a return of civilians to power.
The West African organization also decided to sanction the members of the Government and the National Transitional Council (CNT) of Guinea – Colonel Mamady Doumbouya has been in power since a coup that overthrew President Alpha Conde in September – If it did not show “Calendar acceptable for the transition” before April 25, 2022. No transition plan has so far been presented in Guinea.
The Cédéao will also take “individual sanctions” against the transitional authorities of Burkina Faso if they did not release former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré by March 31, 2022. The Organization also requested a deadline ” more acceptable “than 36 months so far announced to establish a democratic transition schedule.
“Our democratic values must be preserved,” said Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the Cédéao Commission.
Severe economic retaliation measures in Mali
Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, a country with political crises but also safe for the first two, have all been the theater of military coups since August 2020. Mali has even lived two putschs, in August 2020 and May 2021.
The Cédéao, which has suspended the three countries of these bodies, put pressure on the juntes now to power so that they quickly make power to civilians.
It has inflicted on 9 January of Mali’s re-retaliation measures, sanctioning the sold military project to maintain several years at the head of the country, while they initially committed to organizing elections in February 2022. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou said on Friday that these sanctions would gradually be adjourned to Mali if the leaders respect the period of 12 to 16 months